[B-Greek] hWSANNA
Bert de Haan
b_dehaan at sympatico.ca
Sat Feb 18 05:35:34 EST 2006
>From: George F Somsel <gfsomsel at juno.com>
>To: b_dehaan at sympatico.ca
>CC: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
>Subject: Re: [B-Greek] hWSANNA
>Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 22:06:55 -0500
>
>On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 01:04:53 +0000 "Bert de Haan" <b_dehaan at sympatico.ca>
>writes:
> > I read that hWSANNA is a Hebrew word that means something like -oh
> > save-
> > which sounds like an imperative.
> > I was wondering how this came to be an exclamation of praise in
> > hWSANNA TWi
> > hUIWi DAUID
> > It is an exlamation of praise is it not? It can't really mean Oh
> > save (us)
> > son of David because then the dative does not make sense.
> > Is this similar to the Nazi salute Heil Hitler? (Obviously I only
> > mean to
> > compare hosanna and heil, and not the persons.)
> > I think that Heil has a meaning similar to save or salvation as
> > well. (I am
> > comparing heil to a Dutch word for saviour, Heiland.)
> >
> > One more question about this word. Had this word become a common
> > exclamation
> > that it did not get translated into Greek, in the same way that amen
> > did?
> >
> > Bert de Haan.
>____________
>
>...... As used in Nazi Germany Heil is not a call for salvation so much as
>a wish for health to the Fuhrer. ......
>
>george
>gfsomsel
>___________
If hWSANNA is not used as an imperative is the meaning of hWSANNA TWi hUIWi
DAUID then something like -salvation to the Son of David?
Bert de Haan.
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